conditions. we re tracking it. donald trump s 2024 campaign getting its first major gop challenger, former south carolina governor nikki haley, who served as u.n. ambassador under mr. trump, announcing she is running. how the former president is responding. the remarkable rescues in turkey. a 65-year-old found alive after more than 200 hours beneath the rubble as the earthquake toll nears 40,000. dramatic testimony in the alex murdaugh trial. what his slain wife s sister revealed about her conversation with murdaugh after the murders. and the perfect gift for your valentine. how to get a love song personalized. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. there has been another sadly we can all finish the sentence. there has been another mass shooting. another place struggling to comprehend the kind of horror that happened elsewhere until it happened there last night. michigan state university in east lansing. three students are dead, fi
taylor green. some have denied this ever happened. matt gates is under investigation in an alleged sex trafficking investigation. he has denied all wrong doing, he has not been charged. but according to the testimony we heard in the hearing today, matt gates was asking for one of those from the beginning of time for everything he has ever done kind of pardons. and, you know, that could be an interesting thing for prosecutors who are still looking at him and are still going to have to decide whether or not he faces these charges. it depends on what he told the white house his pardons were about. this could add complications to matt gates. at this point, these members of congress are saying that there s nothing to see here but, as you can tell from the testimony from people inside the white house, this actually happened. you mentioned mr. biggs mr. biggs did. mr. dornan talked about congressional pardons but he never asked me for one. mr. gomer asked for one as well and m
that violence against the former vice president. tonight, committee members olaf comments on the growing danger. and harry litman on the difficulties of prosecuting. and sandra garza on trump s culpability in the death of her partner. officer brian sicknick, all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. one of the two republican members of the january six committee just offered a stark, personal warning about the threat of political violence in this country. a topic he knows a thing or two about. this threat that came in was mailed to my house. we got it a couple of days ago. it threatens to execute me, as well as my wife and five month old child. i have never seen or had anything like that. there are people, there is violence in the future. i m going to tell, you until we get a grip on telling people the truth, we cannot expect any differently. that is adam kinzinger, illinois. he has been in congress for more than a decade. the vast majority of
blamed for the botched response to the school massacre has been placed on administrative leave. and stunning underwater photos of an american swimmer being rescued by her coach after fainting during the world championships and sinking to the bottom of the pool. the swimmer is okay. this is not the first time this happened to her. we ll explain what s going on there. along with joe, willie is back and me. we have former chairman of the republican national committee michael steel and white house bureau chief at politico and host of way too early. good to have you all onboard. i have a couple things i want to start with today. you re warning me. i have a couple things on my mind. i need the american flag and i need to talk. i have about five minutes. really, yesterday you missed i have to tell you, you missed a very special moment in washington politics. there was an aticus finch like character who testified before the january 6th committee. he was a speaker of the a
the state department works to find them. cnn s barbara starr has the latest developments. reporter: it was in the fighting north of kharkiv where two americans went missing last week, less than 5 miles from the russian border. the u.s. government working with ukrainian authorities to find them. i have been briefed. we don t know where they are, but i want to reiterate americans should not be going to ukraine now. reporter: now this photo from a russian blogger has emerged of alexander and andy appeared to be bound in the back of a russian military vehicle. video later emerging of an interview they did with pro-russian media. cnn is not showing the video as the two appear to be speaking under duress. now the state department is working to verify their status. they said that there is a photograph that is being circulated on the russian media, and they re working hard to verify it. we re very hopeful. reporter: retired staff sergeant druuke served in both kuwait and ir